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Section 54-142k – Availability of conviction information and nonconviction information

May 11, 2021 | Connecticut, Criminal Procedure

(a) Each person or agency holding conviction information or nonconviction information shall establish reasonable hours and places of inspection of such information.
(b) Each person or agency holding conviction information or nonconviction information shall (1) update such information promptly whenever related criminal history record information is erased, modified or corrected or when a pardon is granted; and (2) post on any conviction information or nonconviction information available to the public a notice that the criminal history record information may change daily due to erasures, corrections, pardons and other modifications to individual criminal history record information and that the person or agency cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information except with respect to the date the information is disclosed or obtained.
(c) Conviction information shall be available to the public for any purpose.
(d) Nonconviction information shall be available to the subject of the information and to the subject’s attorney pursuant to this subsection and subsection (e) of this section. Any person shall, upon satisfactory proof of the person’s identity, be entitled to inspect, for purposes of verification and correction, any nonconviction information relating to the person and upon the person’s request shall be given a computer printout or photocopy of such information for which a reasonable fee may be charged, provided no erased record may be released except as provided in subsection (f) of section 54-142a. Before releasing any exact reproductions of nonconviction information to the subject of the information, the agency holding such information may remove all personal identifying information from such reproductions.
(e) Any person may authorize, in writing, an agency holding nonconviction information pertaining directly to the person to disclose such information to the person’s attorney. The holding agency shall permit such attorney to inspect and obtain a copy of such information if both the attorney’s identity and that of the attorney’s client are satisfactorily established, provided no erased record may be released unless the attorney attests to such attorney’s client’s intention to challenge the accuracy of such record.
(f) Any person who obtains nonconviction information by falsely representing to be the subject of the information shall be guilty of a class D felony.

Conn. Gen. Stat. ยง 54-142k

(P.A. 78-200, S. 10; P.A. 79-631, S. 12, 111; P.A. 80-218; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 78, 82; P.A. 85-604; P.A. 89-28; P.A. 90-104; P.A. 92-134, S. 2; 92-262, S. 16, 42; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-117, S. 2; P.A. 05-152, S. 10; P.A. 07-243, S. 2.)

Cited. 183 Conn. 183. Cited. 36 Conn.Supp. 89.